Columns
Owl’s Eye: Aliens and you
So the world is once again abuzz with flying saucers and aliens. Some serious people are weighing in ...
Columns
Steve Flowers: Siegelman Meets Big Jim
We are continuing this week with our summer series on Big Jim Folsom – Alabama’s most colorful governor. ...
Columns
Owl’s Eye: Compromise and balance
Funny how words can mean different things. Compromise was once a good word. Democracy, a great Parliamentarian once ...
Editorials
Letter to the editor: Free press vital to our community
A free press is anathema to a despot, but essential to a democracy. People cannot act together to ...
Editorials
(Our view) Well begun, but there is yet much work to do
It was encouraging to hear support and affirmation for mental heath services from our state delegation during a ...
Columns
Steve Flowers: Alabama’s most uninhibited governor
Big Jim Folsom was the epitome of unbridled candidness. Late in his second term, he had been on ...
Columns
Owl’s Eye: Volkmarches
So here I was, flying around the Alabama Veterans Museum. I landed near two former soldiers talking about ...
Columns
Steve Flowers: If Alabama loses Space Command, it’s because we lost Shelby
Make no mistake about it, the decision as to where the heralded National Space Command Headquarters will be ...
Columns
Armstrong Williams: Informal censorship is worse than book burning
Suppose the president of the United States voices concern over media concentration. The president promises to consider antitrust ...
Columns
Owl’s Eye: Mysteries right here
We Owls are shameless about listening in to any passerby. One recently told a funny story from his ...